The US Capitol Just Honored Norman Borlaug, The Man Who Saved A Billion Liveshttp://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-norman-borlaug-2014-3/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:33:31 -0400Dina Spectorhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/533304906bb3f7895786ebb4AlienateWed, 26 Mar 2014 12:47:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/533304906bb3f7895786ebb4
Your post proves my point. May this article lead you to a new enlightenment:
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/10/wheat-threatens-all-humans-new-research-shows.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/10/wheat-threatens-all-humans-new-research-shows.html</a>
However, based on your past posts, I have little reason to believe that new info can actually change your viewpoint on anything.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53323ad86bb3f76f160df926Doug in VirginiaTue, 25 Mar 2014 22:26:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53323ad86bb3f76f160df926
"This grain is grown on more land area than any other commercial food.[citation needed] World trade in wheat is greater than for all other crops combined.[4] Globally, wheat is the leading source of vegetable protein in human food, having a higher protein content than other major cereals, maize (corn) or rice.[5] In terms of total production tonnages used for food, it is currently second to rice as the main human food crop and ahead of maize, after allowing for maize's more extensive use in animal feeds. Along with this wheat can be used in cement
Wheat was a key factor enabling the emergence of city-based societies at the start of civilization because it was one of the first crops that could be easily cultivated on a large scale, and had the additional advantage of yielding a harvest that provides long-term storage of food. Wheat contributed to the emergence of city-states in the Fertile Crescent, including the Babylonian and Assyrian empires. Wheat grain is a staple food used to make flour for leavened, flat and steamed breads, biscuits, cookies, cakes, breakfast cereal, pasta, noodles, couscous[6] and for fermentation to make beer,[7] other alcoholic beverages,[8] or biofuel.[9]"
That does sound like "the planet's most dangerous food," doesn't it?
Oh, that's right, you only debate with people who agree with you.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53321013eab8ea89350df92aAlienateTue, 25 Mar 2014 19:24:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53321013eab8ea89350df92a
Sorry. You are just un-educated on the subject. And, I don't have the time or inclination to debate the issue with a person whose other posts are not to my liking. Have a good life, however shortened it may be by your food ignorance.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53320ecd69bedd48580df924Doug in VirginiaTue, 25 Mar 2014 19:18:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53320ecd69bedd48580df924
Really? You have been indoctrinated with some misinformation.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53320e2669bedde6450df92cDoug in VirginiaTue, 25 Mar 2014 19:15:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53320e2669bedde6450df92c
Fertility rate comes down when life expectancy goes up. People worry about losing their children until they stop losing them.
People born this century will love long enough to see world population stop increasing by the middle of the decade as fertility rates drop in the developing world.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331f3066bb3f75c240df927AlienateTue, 25 Mar 2014 17:20:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331f3066bb3f75c240df927
Saved a billion, while slowly killing the rest of us, including the "saved". Wheat, as we know it today, is the planet's most dangerous food. It causes more "un-health" than any other product save maybe refined sugar. I'd spit on his statue if I was walking by it. But he is not alone in this assault on our food supply. Monsanto takes his work to undreamed of heights.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331f11ceab8ea274a0df924Alex13Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:11:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331f11ceab8ea274a0df924
You are being sarcastic...right???http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331eebeeab8eac2440df924A. D. SipleTue, 25 Mar 2014 17:01:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331eebeeab8eac2440df924
Yes, indeed. Unfortunately, all those "saved" souls died anyway. Whereupon they met Jesus, who had to impart the sad or glad news that although they got to eat loaves of wheat bread for a longer time on Earth, they were now going to have to face what everyone must face after death: a court decision concerning how they lived those extended lives. Did they place their trust in God or did they place their trust in science and money and pleasure and fear and pride?
It isn't how long you live it's how well. Jesus didn't come to cure all the earthly problems as they are all a result of man's rejection of God. He came to take the game up to the next level, hit reboot, start a new game at a new level. Virgin is looking for volunteers to go to Mars. Jesus is looking for volunteers to go to heaven.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331edcc6bb3f7dd110df92eSterlingTue, 25 Mar 2014 16:57:48 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331edcc6bb3f7dd110df92e
Dammit Obama!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331ed4f6da811e72b0df933Food for ThoughtTue, 25 Mar 2014 16:55:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331ed4f6da811e72b0df933
I often wonder if Borlaug saved billions of lives, or whether he caused the population of the planet to overshoot from 3 billion to 7 billion people. None of the 'green revolution is sustainable. It relies heavily on fertilizer and pesticides. It speeds up soil depletion. It requires heavy irrigation. As we speak, scientists are hard at work figuring out how they are going to feed the projected future population of 10 billion, most likely again from an unsustainable farming method. While they have an admirable concern for hunger, I have to believe they are merely postponing the day of reckoning, and making that reckoning occur with many, many more people at risk.
Some people believe that mankind will magically stop procreating when we reach a certain population, but I believe we procreate up to the level of food that is available.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331eaa7eab8ea3d300df927mpTue, 25 Mar 2014 16:44:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5331eaa7eab8ea3d300df927
He's better than Jesus.